It would be great! I'm not sure how bad the mat situation would be- I see a lot of Luxrender scenes that look great! I've not tried it myself

 

Quote - > Quote - The confusion about SR1 is this - Smith Micro did not publicly acknowledge the blue-skin problem until the release of SR1. In the updated release, they noted it for the first time.

I noted it in beta before the initial release, but I guess they hoped it would be only a minor problem that I ran into because I'm a guy who pushes Poser rather hard.

But it's coming up in ordinary situations and there isn't much you can do about it other than to note that this is why unbiased renderers are great. Because they have no cheats and approximations, you don't find situations where the cheating reveals itself as a flaw or artifact.

I would love it if the community would embrace an unbiased render engine built into Poser.

I would definitely embrace being able to either chose an external / optional renderer or vote for another one to Firefly, personally. But I understand there are mat-room considerations. Materials would have to be tailored for the new renderer... unless I'm missing something. IOW, a major re-write.